Late Son

Late Son
Sequel to Pixel
Steven wakes beneath the world, sealed behind a door designed not to imprison-but to erase. What he finds there is not a weapon or a threat, but a person the system chose to forget.
Iria was removed quietly. Not for violence. Not for forbidden power. But for following responsibility too far-asking who made decisions, and who paid for them. When punishment would have drawn attention, obscurity was chosen instead.
Steven does not rescue her in spectacle or flame. He offers something rarer: honesty, restraint, and time.
Together, they step into a village small enough to be overlooked and choose to stay. Not as heroes. Not as saviours. But as people who notice things early-before problems harden into disasters, before help becomes a story that draws the wrong kind of attention.
Late Son is a quiet fantasy about systems that fail politely, power that refuses spectacle, and the cost of staying when walking away would be easier. It follows a man who has already lived a miracle, and now measures his life by what he prevents rather than what he conquers.
This is a story about stability as an act of courage-and about what it means to help without being seen.